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Leonardo ISAST invites you to a meeting of the Leonardo Art/Science community.
See below for location and agenda.
The event is free and open to everybody.
Feel free to invite relevant acquaintances.
Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com . Admission is limited.
Like previous evenings (See the January meeting and
the
March meeting and
the
May meeting) the
agenda includes some presentations of art/science projects, a couple of brief
"news", and time for casual socializing/networking.
In order to facilitate the networking, feel free to send me the URL of a webpage that describes your work or the organization you work for. I will publish
a list on this webpage before the day of the event so that everybody can check
what everybody else is doing. (Not mandatory, just suggested).
See also...
Previous Art/Science Evenings
Sustainable Development (swissnex)
Visual Music at Expressions Gallery
When: July 14, 2008
Where: Donwtown facilities of SFSU
835 Market, between 4th and 5th Streets, 6th floor
BART and MUNI tip: the building is above the Powell Station
What:
- 6:00pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.
We encourage you to interact with Leonardo ISAST board members:
- 6:45-7:15:
Joaquin Alvarado, Director of SFSU's Institute for Next Generation Internet, on "Economies of Representation and the Rise of Transactional Identity"
Converging platforms and persistent user interactions on the network have created a new tension in communities and communication. Individual agency is now being applied as a quantifiable transaction in the evolving event-horizon of ubiquitous computing. As users continue to deploy mediated actions in abstracted media forms they are inevitably engaging in negotiations with automated agents. This creates a friction point that will deliver the new economics of identity.
- 7:15-7:45:
Amy Ione, Director of the Diatrope Institute, on "Art and the Brain"
Art practice and appreciation are generally considered products of human
culture, rather than areas for scientific investigation. Yet, perhaps
because art that is quintessentially exquisite speaks so deeply to us, it is
difficult to see human culture as a map for one1s individual experience with
art. Now, with the explosion of brain research on cognition, perception, and
sensation we are beginning to explore the nature of art in ways that include
neurobiological and neuropsychological questions. What is exemplary
within this is the way researchers of the brain have begun to open a door
for all of us to re-think our ideas about art. In addition, we find that
artists respond to the scientific research intellectually and in their work.
In this talk I will examine areas where neurobiological studies have
advanced our understanding of art, the shortcomings embedded within these
investigations to date and artistic projects that are interwoven with recent
scientific studies.
- 7:45-8:00:
Roger Malina, CNRS Marseille, on Leonardo ISAST's worldwide activities
Leonardo/ISAST serves the international arts community by promoting and documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology.
Leonardo/ISAST is celebrating its 40th anniversary with special projects and events around the world such as the recent "Big Bang" conference in Berkeley.
Activities of the Leonardo network include publication of the print journals Leonardo; the Leonardo Music Journal; the Leonardo Book Series; and electronic publications including the Leonardo Electronic Almanac; Leonardo Abstracts Service database of thesis abstracts; Leonardo Transactions and our World Wide Web Site, Leonardo On-Line. A sister organization in France, the Association Leonardo, publishes the Observatoire Leonardo Web Site. Other activities include the Leonardo Educators and Students Program and an awards program.
- 8:00-8:20:
Robert Rich, Electronic and Digital Composer, on "Microtonal Music and Just Intonation"
A brief introduction to the use of tuning systems based upon ratios, focusing on musical examples and audio demonstrations, with just a bit of history and not much math.
- 8:20-8:40:
Lynette Cook, Artist, on "Art and the Cosmos".
Known especially for her collaborations with Geoff Marcy and other exoplanet discoverers, Cook has painted many planet portraits, from those of our own solar system to those orbiting other stars. She will explain how she knows what these distant bodies look like.
- 8:40:
Piero Scaruffi on the next Leonardo Art/Science evening
I will simply preview the line-up of speakers for the next Leonardo evening.
- 8:45pm-9:45pm: Discussions, more socializing
Bios:
- Joaquin Alvarado Joaquin Alvarado is the Founding Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University. The Institute focuses on technology, policy and community development in the Next Generation Internet environment. The Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University was founded in 2005 to provide leadership in the evolution of Next Generation Internet focusing on issues of public policy, industry collaboration, research and development, and community engagement.
- Lynette Cook is best known for her illustrations of discovered planets around other stars. She has worked extensively with planet hunters Geoff Marcy and his team, among others, who have found most of the nearly 300 exoplanets known to date. These renderings have been used in press releases and have graced books, periodicals, newspapers, and documentaries both in the United States and abroad, bringing to life worlds too distant to be photographed directly.
- Amy Ione, an international lecturer, painter, and writer, is presently the Director of the Diatrope Institute in Berkeley. She has published several books, most recently Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths (Rodopi, 2005), and is working on a special issue for the Journal of the History of Neuroscience on Visual Images and Visualization.
- Robert Rich has released over 30 albums in the last three decades, mostly instrumental electronic music. He became somewhat notorious for performing all-night Sleep Concerts in the '80s. He studied for a year at Stanford's CCRMA while getting a degree in Psychology, and now tours occasionally, creates sound design for films and electronic instruments, and has begun teaching courses on audio mastering and studio engineering. More at http://robertrich.com.
- Piero Scaruffi is a cognitive scientist who has lectured in three continents and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, the latest one being "The Nature of Consciousness" (2006). He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid 1990s. His poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA. As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being "A History of Rock Music" (2003) and "A History of Jazz Music" (2007). He has also written extensively about cinema, literature and the visual arts. An avid traveler, he has visited 121 countries of the world.
Directions:
From Market Street, Enter at SFSU (835 Market) and take elevator to 6th
Floor. Signs will be posted
If coming on BART, take POWELL STATION exit, enter Concourse Food Court,
look for Out The Door restaurant on the left. Immediately past the
restaurant, turn left, walk past the first set of elevators to the second
set of elevators and go to the 6th floor.
If coming on MUNI, take POWELL STATION exit, enter Westfield Centre and head
through the first mini-food court to main concourse food court. Walk
straight across the food court and walk between Amoura and Out the Door
restaurants, past the first set of elevators to the second set of elevators
and go to the 6th floor.
If driving, Park in the 5th and Mission Garage. Enter through Market Street
or walk through Bloomingdale's, look for the signs to San Francisco State
University and take elevator to 6th floor.
SFSU Downtown Campus
835 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
ICA Office: 415.817.4476
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